Harvesting rice in the large field model in Co Do district.
To develop production, the agricultural sector of Can Tho city has actively supported and encouraged farmers to mechanize and apply technical advances, smart and high-tech solutions to production. Standardize production to meet the standards, quality and safety to meet market demand.
Measures to improve seedling varieties and improve new farming methods are also applied to increase productivity and quality of crops and livestock and strengthen linkages, forming large agricultural commodity production areas. High quality associated with processing and exporting. Irrigation and rural transportation infrastructure are invested and developed in association with promoting linkages and cooperation along industry value chains.
So far, many stages in the cultivation process, especially rice production, such as tillage, irrigation, rice harvesting, straw collection are mechanized. The city has formed concentrated aquaculture areas, production areas of rice, vegetables, ornamental flowers and fruit trees, producing high-quality goods to meet the requirements of domestic consumption and export, associated with development of tourism in agriculture.
Simultaneously, linkages between stakeholders are associated with management, economical use of resources and synchronous application of scientific and technical advances to improve production efficiency and contribute to environmental protection. Typically, the large field model, implemented from the 2011 summer-autumn crop with an initial area of only 400 hectares in Vinh Thanh district, has now grown to 94 fields with an area of more than 33,000 hectares/crop.
Mr. Nguyen Danh Dung, a farmer at Toan Phat Agricultural Cooperative in Thanh Phu commune, Co Do district, said: "Thanks to participating in the large field model model, farmers are provided with input materials and products output, so production can be assured. At the same time, having the conditions for mechanization, centralized cultivation, the same rice variety and application of the same production process has helped reduce costs and create a large amount of large commodity rice with uniform quality to sell at high prices, thereby increasing profits from 2-5 million VND/ha/crop." |